Category: comet

The asteroid NASA just landed on turns out to be hollow, with a large ‘void’ at its center. It may be spinning itself to death. – Business Insider India

A rotating mosaic of asteroid Bennu, composed of images captured by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft over a four-hour period on December 2, 2018.NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona…More about this article in the link below… https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/the-asteroid-nasa-just-landed-on-turns-out-to-be-hollow-with-a-large-void-at-its-center-it-may-be-spinning-itself-to-death-/amp_articleshow/79114190.cms

Read More The asteroid NASA just landed on turns out to be hollow, with a large ‘void’ at its center. It may be spinning itself to death. – Business Insider India

Rosetta spacecraft detects unexpected ultraviolet aurora at a comet

Data from Southwest Research Institute-led instruments aboard ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft have helped reveal auroral emissions in the far ultraviolet around a comet for the first time. At Earth, auroras are formed when charged particles from the Sun follow our planet’s magnetic field lines to the north and south poles. There, solar particles strike atoms and molecules in […]

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